The Fellowship of the Ring Quotes

“In many ways,' answered the wizard. 'It is far more powerful than I ever dared to think at first, so powerful that in the end it would utterly overcome anyone of mortal race who possessed it. It would possess him.”
― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring

“Is there no escape then?' said Frodo, looking around wildly. 'If I move I shall be seen and hunted! If I stay, I shall draw them to me!”
― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring

“Home is behind, the world ahead, And there are many paths to tread Through shadows to the edge of night, Until the stars are all alight.”
― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring

“You can't trust us to let you face trouble alone.”
― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring

“I cordially dislike allegory in all its manifestations, and always have done so since I grew old and wary enough to detect its presence. I much prefer history, true or feigned, with its varied applicability to the thought and experience of readers. I think that many confuse ‘applicability’ with ‘allegory’; but the one resides in the freedom of the reader, and the other in the purposed domination of the author.”
― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring

“Karşılaştığımız saatin üzerinde bir yıldız parlıyor.”
― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring

“Maybe,’ said Gimli, ‘and I thank you for your words. True words doubtless; yet all such comfort is cold. Memory is not what the heart desires. That is only a mirror, be it as clear as Kheled-zâram.”
― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring

“Against delay. Against the way that seems easier. Against refusal of the burden that is laid on me. Against - well, if it must be said, against trust in the strength and truth of Men.”
― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring

“for advice is a dangerous gift, even from the wise to the wise, and all courses may run ill.”
― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring

“Home is behind, the world ahead, And there are many paths to tread Through shadows to the edge of night, Until the stars are all alight. Then world behind and home ahead, We’ll wander back to home and bed. Mist and twilight, cloud and shade, Away shall fade! Away shall fade! Fire and lamp, and meat and bread, And then to bed! And then to bed!”
― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring

“In many ways,' answered the wizard. 'It is far more powerful than I ever dared to think at first, so powerful that in the end it would utterly overcome anyone of mortal race who possessed it. It would possess him.”
― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring

“Just why Mr. Frodo was selling his beautiful hole was even more debatable than the price.”
― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring

“I see that you are an elf-friend; the light in your eyes and the ring in your voice tells it.”
― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring

“This foe is beyond any of you...RUN!”
― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring

“Avrei tanto desiderato che tutto ciò non fosse accaduto ai miei giorni!
Anch'io, come d'altronde tutti coloro che vivono questi avvenimenti. Ma non tocca a noi scegliere. Tutto ciò che possiamo decidere è come disporre del tempo che ci è dato.”
― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring

“Wonderful folk, Elves, sir! Wonderful!' 'They are,' said Frodo. 'Do you like them still, now you have had a closer view?”
― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring

“Faithless is he that says farewell when the road darkens,”
― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring

“I should like to save the Shire, if I could – though there have been times when I thought the inhabitants too stupid and dull for words, and have felt that an earthquake or an invasion of dragons might be good for them. But I don’t feel like that now. I feel that as long as the Shire lies behind, safe and comfortable, I shall find wandering more bearable: I shall know that somewhere there is a firm foothold, even if my feet cannot stand there again.”
― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring

“He heard himself crying out: Never, never! Or was it: Verily I come, I come to you? He could not tell. Then as a flash from some other point of power there came to his mind another thought: Take it off! Take it off! Fool, take it off! Take off the Ring!
The two powers strove in him. For a moment, perfectly balanced between their piercing points, he writhed, tormented. Suddenly he was aware of himself again. Frodo, neither the Voice nor the Eye: free to choose, and with one remaining instant in which to do so. He took the Ring off his finger.”
― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring

“They themselves do not see the world of light as we do, but our shapes cast shadows in their minds, which only the noon sun destroys.”
― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring

“As she ran her gown rustled softly like the wind in the flowering borders of a river.”
― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring

“Sleepiness seemed to be creeping out of the ground and up their legs, and falling softly out of the air upon theirheads and eyes.”
― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring

“There’s earth under his old feet, and clay on his fingers; wisdom in his bones, and both his eyes are open”
― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring

“Non puoi passare - disse. Gli Orchi tacquero, e si fece un silenzio di morte - Sono un servitore del Fuoco Segreto, e reggo la fiamma di Anor. Non puoi passare. A nulla ti servirà il fuoco oscu­ro, fiamma di Udùn. Torna nell'Ombra! Non puoi passare”
― J R R Tolkien, 魔戒首部曲：魔戒現身

“If simple folk are free from care and fear, simple they will be, and we must be secret to keep them so.”
― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring

“There isn't no call to go talking of pushing and pulling. Boats are quite tricky enough for those that sit still without looking for further for the cause of trouble.”
― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring

“Frodo: 'It's a pity Bilbo didn't kill Gollum when he had the chance.'
Gandalf: 'Pity? It's pity that stayed Bilbo's hand. Many that live deserve death. Some that die deserve life. Can you give it to them, Frodo? Do not be too eager to deal out death in judgment. Even the very wise cannot see all ends. My heart tells me that Gollum has some part to play in it, for good or evil, before this is over. The pity of Bilbo may rule the fate of many.' Frodo: 'I wish the Ring had never come to me. I wish none of this had happened.'
Gandalf: 'So do all who live to see such times, but that is not for them to decide. All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given to us. There are other forces at work in this world, Frodo, besides that of evil. Bilbo was meant to find the Ring, in which case you were also meant to have it. And that is an encouraging thought.”
― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring (Book One) Being the first part of (The Lord of the Rings Tabi no nakama : yubiwa monogatari dai 1-bu [Japanese Edition]

“For still there are so many things
that I have never seen:
in every wood in every spring
there is a different green.

I sit beside the fire and think
of people long ago,
and people who will see a world
that I shall never know.”
― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring

“Elrond was in his chair and the fire was on his face like summer-light upon the trees.”
― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring

“I wish I had never seen the Ring! Why did it come to me? Why was I chosen?’ ‘Such questions cannot be answered,’ said Gandalf. ‘You may be sure that it was not for any merit that others do not possess: not for power or wisdom, at any rate. But you have been chosen, and you must therefore use such strength and heart and wits as you have.”
― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring